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Venezuela’s collapse is a window into how the Oil Age will unravel
Venezuela’s collapse is a window into how the Oil Age will unravel For some, the crisis in Venezuela is all about the endemic corruption of Nicolás Maduro, continuing the broken legacy of Chavez’s ideological experiment in socialism under the mounting insidious influence of Putin. For others, it’s all about the ongoing counter-democratic meddling of the United […]
Venezuela: The US’s 68th Regime Change Disaster
Venezuela: The US’s 68th Regime Change Disaster In his masterpiece, Killing Hope: U.S. Military and C.I.A. Interventions Since World War II, William Blum, who died in December 2018, wrote chapter-length accounts of 55 US regime change operations against countries around the world, from China (1945-1960s) to Haiti (1986-1994). Noam Chomsky’s blurb on the back of the […]
Dismantling the Doomsday Machines
Dismantling the Doomsday Machines “From a technical point of view, he (Stanley Kubrick) anticipated many things. … Since that time, little has changed, honestly. The only difference is that modern weapons systems have become more sophisticated, more complex. But this idea of a retaliatory strike and the inability to manage these systems, yes, all of these […]
Debts and Deficits are Out of Control
Debts and Deficits are Out of Control Understandably, the problems and politics of the moment dominate the news and attract the attention of most policy commentators and much of the public. Will there be another government shutdown, will House Democrats attempt to impeach the president, will interest rates remain low, and will there be a […]
5 Things To Watch In Natural Gas
5 Things To Watch In Natural Gas A new report from Rystad Energy identifies five vital themes that will shape global gas markets in 2019. Significant LNG production growth, the rise of US gas to challenge Russian dominance in Europe, insatiable demand in Asia, price pressure in selected regions, and a need for final investment decisions on planned […]
Goodbye ‘Freedom and Democracy’ – Hello ‘Rules-based International Order’
Goodbye ‘Freedom and Democracy’ – Hello ‘Rules-based International Order’ The banner and the clarion call of western countries, and their own asserted legitimation – especially when they are engaging in illegal wars and coups – used to be “freedom and democracy”: the precious gift they were generously and selflessly offering to a backward world – […]
Washington plays Russian roulette with European lives by trashing INF Treaty
Washington plays Russian roulette with European lives by trashing INF Treaty © Getty Images / Denver Post In a flash, the US has scrapped the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, which safeguarded Europe and the world from a deadly US-Russia arms race. This is particularly bad news for Europeans. Russia must be feeling a […]
Bertrand Russell Diagnoses Washington War Madness and the Coming Rape of Venezuela
Bertrand Russell Diagnoses Washington War Madness and the Coming Rape of Venezuela It is a scene depressingly familiar to inhabitants of Political Washington over the past 30 years since US armed invasion of small or vulnerable countries came back into fashion after being briefly discredited following the Vietnam War. This time it is Venezuela and […]
Hurtling Toward Bankruptcy
HURTLING TOWARD BANKRUPTCY The federal government owes people almost $22 trillion. That means that American taxpayers owe people almost $22 trillion. That’s because the federal government has no money of its own. The money it gets comes entirely from American taxpayers. That’s what the IRS is for — to make certain that everyone sends his […]
The Coming US-China Proxy War In Venezuela
The Coming US-China Proxy War In Venezuela China won’t give up on embattled Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro anytime soon even as the US-led international noose of “delegitimizing” hangs around the socialist strongman, according to government statements released on Friday. Beijing reaffirmed it maintains “normal state-to-state relations” and cooperation between the two sides “shouldn’t be undermined no matter how […]
Pompeo’s ‘Pandora’s Box’
Pompeo’s ‘Pandora’s Box’ Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, taking advantage of political bedlam inside the Donald Trump White House, has busied himself with “regime change” in Venezuela. Pompeo, working with National Security Adviser John Bolton and Iran-contra felon and arch-neo-conservative Elliott Abrams, worked secretly with Venezuela’s self-proclaimed “interim president,” Juan Guaido, to overthrow that nation’s […]
The US aggression against Venezuela as a diagnostic tool
The US aggression against Venezuela as a diagnostic tool The Neocons never cease to amaze me and their latest stunt with Venezuela falls into this bizarre category of events which are both absolutely unthinkable and simultaneously absolutely predictable. This apparent logical contradiction is the direct result of a worldview and mindset which is, I believe, […]
Your Complete Guide to the N.Y. Times’ Support of U.S.-Backed Coups in Latin America
Your Complete Guide to the N.Y. Times’ Support of U.S.-Backed Coups in Latin America On Friday, The New York Times continued its long, predictable tradition of backing U.S. coups in Latin America by publishing an editorial praising Donald Trump’s attempt to overthrow Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. This will be the 10th such coup the paper has backed […]
